Sr. Data Engineer

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.$100K — $130K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in software/data engineering.
  • Proficient in modern programming languages like JavaScript/TypeScript, React.js, Node.js, and Python.
  • Experience with backend frameworks like Express.js, Django, or FastAPI.
  • Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
  • Advanced SQL knowledge and experience with big data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks).
  • Familiarity with AWS cloud services such as Athena, Lambda, and Kinesis.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze data warehouse and reporting requirements to inform architecture decisions.
  • Design and implement scalable ETL/ELT processes and database queries.
  • Develop high-quality, maintainable code aligned with business requirements.
  • Adopt improvements in engineering practices with a continuous learning mindset.
  • Deliver JIRA user stories that meet team quality standards.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and deploy data solutions.
  • Perform ad hoc data analysis to support various business units.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
  • Collaboration with diverse teams across the organization.
  • Involvement in the development of next-generation digital products.
  • Continuous learning and growth mindset encouraged.
  • Engagement in impactful projects that drive business strategies.
Full Job Description
Overview

Our Global Technology & Operations - Business Systems Team is adding two Sr. Data Engineers to the team. These roles will partner with a fast-paced team to design and deliver senior-level data technology solutions that enable actionable insights and support the development of next-generation digital products and strategies. The positions also contribute to building and optimizing internal data pipelines to advance the organization's digital data strategy.

Role & Responsibilities:
  • Analyze brand and enterprise data warehouse and reporting requirements to inform data architecture, modeling, and design decisions.
  • Design and implement scalable ETL/ELT processes, database queries, and data access models to support reliable data aggregation and insight delivery.
  • Develop high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code that meets business and technical requirements.
  • Demonstrate a continuous learning mindset and proactively adopt improvements in daily engineering practices.
  • Deliver end-to-end JIRA user stories in alignment with team quality standards.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional and matrixed teams, including Operations, Technology, PMO, Product, and Data Strategy/Insights, to design, build, test, and deploy data warehouse solutions and reporting tools.
  • Perform ad hoc data analysis across multiple datasets to support various business units.
  • Participate in quality assurance testing for data pipeline initiatives and enhancements to analytics platforms.


Qualifications & Experiences:
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar discipline.
  • 5+ years of experience in software/data engineering.
  • Proficiency in one of the modern programming language JavaScript/TypeScript, React.js, Node.js, and Python.
  • Experience with backend frameworks like Express.js, Django, or FastAPI.
  • Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and microservices architecture.
  • Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with big data platforms e.g. Snowflake, Databricks.
  • Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Experience building and optimizing 'big data' data pipelines, architectures, and data sets.
  • Experience with AWS cloud services - Athena, Quick sight, Kinesis, Lambda, IAM Policies.
  • Experienced in software delivery through continuous integration (for example git, bitbucket, Jenkins, etc.).
  • Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools e.g., airflow.
  • Experienced with Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence).
  • Strong familiarity with CI/CD pipelines is essential for automating testing and deployment processes to ensure efficient and reliable software delivery.

About Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is an American video game publisher based in Burbank, California, and part of the newly-formed Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. WBIE was founded on January 14, 2004 under Warner Bros. and transferred to the Home Entertainment division when that company was formed in October 2005. WBIE manages the wholly owned game development studios TT Games, Rocksteady Studios, NetherRealm Studios, Monolith Productions, WB Games Boston, Avalanche Software, and WB Games Montréal, among others.
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